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The impact of trade agreements on livestock producers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

M. Upton
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, The University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 237, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
J. Otte
Affiliation:
AGAL, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 – Rome, Italy
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The rapid growth of global demand for livestock products, which has occurred over the last quarter century, has been characterised as “the Livestock Revolution” (Delgado et al., 1999 and 2001). It is largely driven by increases in per capita incomes, population growth and urbanisation of the developing countries. (Further notes on the classification of countries, as “developed” or “developing” are given in Appendix 4.1). As Figure 4.1 shows, while consumption per capita of livestock products has fallen slightly in the developed countries over the last decade, substantial growth has occurred in the developing countries.

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